Shorten lunging towards finish

Bill Shorten has spent the final day of the eight-week election campaign marathon "lunging with every inch of energy" towards the finish line.

The opposition leader embarked on a frantic marginal seat blitz across Sydney's west and south.

While three opinion polls on Friday point to an election too close to call, strategists on both camps agree Labor will come up short of the 4.5 per cent swing and the 19 seats it needs to win government.

Mr Shorten had an early start in Martin Place, declaring there was 24 hours to save Medicare, at a rally of some 90 Labor supporters and unionists, in front of his campaign bus.

"You can either have Malcolm Turnbull or Medicare but you can't have both," he said.

Mr Shorten then headed to the seat of Parramatta to sandbag for Labor MP Julie Owens.

At Northcott, a disability services provider, Mr Shorten hailed the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme which begins on Friday.

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"I want to be prime minister of Australia but something I want as much, if not even more, is to see the National Disability Insurance Scheme rolled out," Mr Shorten said.

He met bride-to-be Olivia Princi, 21, who has Spina Bifida and a wheelchair, and heard about her dream to move into her own home and start life as an adult because of the independence she'll gain from the NDIS.

As a parliamentary secretary for disabilities in the Rudd government, Mr Shorten helped make the scheme a reality along with colleague Jenny Macklin.

Health costs were back on Mr Shorten's agenda when he visited Tharawal, an Aboriginal health clinic in Campbelltown alongside Labor candidate for Macarthur Michael Freelander, a local paediatrician.

While Zayden Lett, 8, was having a hearing test, Mr Shorten said he had a million dollar smile.